December 17, 2015
No.290
Mr. François Loncle, French National Assembly member and Vice President of the Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group, will lead a three-member parliamentary delegation to Taiwan, from December 15 to 18, 2015, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China.
The delegation will call on: Pan Wei-kang, President of the ROC (Taiwan)-France Friendship Group of the Legislative Yuan; Lin Chu-chia, Deputy Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council; Tung Yi-min, Director General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Economic Affairs; Huang Jun-Tai, Deputy Director General of the Executive Yuan’s Office of Homeland Security; and Lee Chang-ming, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau. The delegation members will also visit local businesses, the National Palace Museum, and Chimei Museum, while Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Vanessa Shih will host a luncheon in their honor.
Mr. François Loncle has been elected as a member of parliament seven times since 1981, and visited Taiwan in 2013 and 2014. He is a member of the Socialist Party and a senior member of the French National Assembly. The other two delegation members, Mr. Francis Hillmeyer and Mr. Lionel Tardy, are both parliamentarians who have also visited Taiwan before. This trip aims to provide them with a better understanding of recent developments in Taiwan in terms of politics, the economy, and cross-strait relations, as well as Taiwan’s achievements with respect to tackling terrorism, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and organized crime at the international level. (E)